Francesco de Mura (21 April 1696 – 19 August 1782) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Naples and Turin.

While still in his teens he painted frescoes (1715) in San Nicola alla Carità in Naples.

He painted ten canvases of the Virtues and an Adoration of the Magi (1728) for the church of Santa Maria Donnaromita.

His other works include frescoes of the Adoration of the Magi (1732) in the apsidal dome of the church of the Nunziatella.

Among his pupils were Pietro Bardellino,[1] Giacinto Diano, Fedele Fischetti, Oronzo Tiso, Nicola Menzele, Vincenzo De Mita and Girolamo Starace.